Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020, just days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Department to act "now" to bring prosecutions against Comey and other political foes.
A statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said that if convicted, Comey faces up to five years in prison. "Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties," the statement said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, per a Public Telegram Board, that NATO and the European Union are waging war against Russia "using Ukraine as a proxy" and are "directly participating" in the conflict.
Lavrov's comments follow repeated Kremlin claims that Western military and financial support for Ukraine amounts to direct hostility toward Russia.
Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military's generals and admirals to gather on short notice " and without a stated reason " at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump admin's firing of senior leaders this year.
President Trump on Wednesday called on the United Nations to investigate what he deemed was "triple sabotage" after he dealt with an escalator mishap, a teleprompter glitch and audio issues during his trip to the U.N.
House Republicans are reportedly set to introduce legislation to feature slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk on U.S. currency. Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX) and Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) told Fox News Digital that they would file the bill later this week. If the legislation becomes law, the U.S. Treasury would be required to mint 400,000 silver dollar coins with Kirk's likeness. The words "well done, good and faithful servant" would be included on the coins. President Donald Trump and the sitting Treasury Secretary would select the final design.
When Donald Trump first took to the global political stage, not everyone took him seriously. The reaction of world leaders to his speech at the UN General Assembly shows a change in attitude, says a body language expert.
Satellite data indicates that Invest 93L over the central tropical Atlantic has now developed into Tropical Storm Humberto. Visible satellite imagery shows that throughout the day, the low-level center has become well-defined, with persistent and organized deep convection mainly located over the eastern side of the system. Subjective Dvorak intensity estimates from TAFB and SAB were both data-T/2.5 35 kt. DPRINT and DMINT Objective intensity estimates from UW-CIMSS range from 31 to 35 kt. Using these data, the initial intensity is set to 35 kt.
State and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were at risk of radicalization on the chat platform Discord, according to government documents obtained by NBC News.
At a ceremony in Greenland s capital of Nuuk on Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen will offer their official apologies for their governments' roles in the mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception by the Danish health authorities against their will, with cases dating back to the 1960s. Read more
There's a new statue on the east end of the National Mall for Washington DC residents and tourists to enjoy. The bronze statue shows two men frolicking, grinning wide and holding hands, each with a foot joyously kicked back.
Fox "News" host Jesse Watters called for the gassing or bombing of the United Nations building on The Five. Watters claimed that an insurrection was attempted when "they" attempted to sabotage Donald Trump's UN speech but shutting down the escalator and turning off his teleprompter, both things which were done by Trump's own people. Watters stated "they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection, and what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York, though, right? Could be some fallout there"alright. Maybe gas it?"
Federal agents and local police responded to an active shooter situation at the ICE facility in Dallas early Wednesday, where multiple victims were reported and a suspect was seen on the roof. At least three people were critically injured, and CPR was underway on one victim as emergency crews rushed to the scene. One suspect was found dead on a nearby rooftop with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to WFAA, a local news outlet.
Copenhagen Airport halted operations on Monday after multiple drones were spotted in the area. The drones came from several different directions, turning their lights on and off, before disappearing after several hours. Around 35 flights were diverted from the airport. A drone incident was reported on the same evening at Oslo Airport in Norway, forcing all traffic to move to one runway. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen noted the incident was "the most serious attack" on Denmark's critical infrastructure so far and was aligned with "other drone incidents, airspace violations, and hacking attacks on European airports." Security concerns in northern Europe have been heightened over a recent spate of Russian sabotage activities, as well as multiple drones and fighter jet incursions into NATO airspace. Separately in Oslo, an explosion went off near the Israeli Embassy. No one was injured and an undetonated hand grenade was recovered in the area. A 13-year-old suspect was arrested. Read more
NEW YORK (AP) " While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area " a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable. Read more
Yes the day Charlie Kirk's Memorial was going on a gay hookup app did crash and that's not the first time there's been suspicious activity on this app during a fascist event
Errol Musk, the father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of multiple instances of sexual abuse against his other children and stepchildren, according to a bombshell report. The claims against the 79-year-old span decades and involve alleged incidents involving five of his children and stepchildren in South Africa and California, The New York Times reported. One of the alleged victims was his stepdaughter, who went on to have at least one child with Errol Musk, whom he is also alleged to have abused. The allegations involving the stepdaughter are that Errol allegedly touched her inappropriately when she was four-years-old at the family's Pretoria home in 1993.
